Bliz seems to have done some sort of fix to Nakox with the patch. Tried to kite him last night like I usually do, and ended up getting nearly 1-shotted twice. My healer is damn good at his job and was keeping me topped off. I'm at like 555 Defense, so it wasn't just an unlucky crit. I'm really not sure what happened. Gonna have to play around with this some more when I can convince my guildies to try the kiting thing again.
Not like it's hard to just tank him in place anyway.